After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
此后，约伯开口咒诅自己的生日。

And Job responded and said,
约伯回应说，

Let the day on which I was born perish, / And the night which said, A man has been conceived.
愿我生的那日，和说怀了男胎的那夜，都灭没。

Let that day be darkness; / Let God not seek it from above, / Nor let light shine upon it.
愿那日变为黑暗；愿神不从上面寻找它，愿亮光不照在其上。

Let darkness and the shadow of death reclaim it; / Let a cloud dwell upon it; / Let the things that blacken the day terrify it.
愿黑暗和死荫索取那日；愿密云停在其上；愿日蚀惊吓它。

As for that night, let deep darkness take hold of it; / Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; / Let it not come up in the number of the months.
愿那夜被幽暗夺取，不与年中的日子同乐；也不入月中的数目。

Behold, let that night be barren; / Let no joyous shout come in it.
看哪，愿那夜没有生育；其间也没有欢乐的声音。

Let those curse it who curse the day, / Who are ready to rouse leviathan.
愿那些咒诅日子且善于惹动鳄鱼的，咒诅那夜。

Let its predawn stars be dark; / Let it wait for light and there be none, / And do not let it see the eyelids of the dawn.
愿那夜黎明的星宿变为黑暗；盼亮却不亮，也不见黎明的光线。

For it did not shut up the doors of the womb that bore me, / Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
因它没有把怀我胎的门关闭，也没有将患难向我的眼隐藏。

Why did I not die at birth, / Come forth from the womb and expire?
我为何不出母胎而死，不出母腹而绝气？

Why did the knees receive me? / And why the breasts, that I should suck?
为何有膝接收我？为何有乳哺养我？

For now I would have lain down and been undisturbed; / I would have slept; then I would have been at rest
不然，我如今早已躺卧寂静；早已入睡安息，

With kings and counselors of the earth, / Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
与地上为自己重建废墟的君王和谋士，

Or with princes who had gold, / Who filled their houses with silver.
或与有金子，将银子装满了房屋的掌权者，一同安息；

Or like a miscarriage that has been concealed, I would not have been, / Like infants that do not see the light.
或像隐而未现，不到期而落的胎，归于无有，如同未见光的婴孩。

There the wicked cease from their troubling, / And there the weary rest.
在那里恶人不再搅扰，困乏人得享安息；

Captives are altogether at ease; / They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
被囚的人同得安逸，听不见督工的声音。

The small and the great are there, / And the servant is free from his master.
大小都在那里；奴仆脱离主人的辖制。

Why does He give light to him who suffers / And life to the bitter in soul,
祂为何赐光给受患难的人，赐生命给魂中愁苦的人呢？

Who wait for death, but it is not there; / And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
他们切望死，却不得死；求死胜于求隐藏的珍宝；

Who rejoice to the point of exultation / And are glad when they have found the grave;
他们寻见坟墓就快乐，极其欢喜；

To the man whose way is hidden / And whom God has hedged in?
人的道路既然遮隐，神又把他四面围困，为何赐光和生命给他呢？

For my sighing comes as my food, / And my groaning pours out like water.
我以叹息代替食物，我唉哼的声音涌出如水。

For I dread something, and it comes upon me; / And what I fear comes to me.
因我所恐惧的临到我身，我所惧怕的迎我而来。

I have no ease and I have no quiet / And I have no rest, but trouble comes.
我不得安逸，不得平静，也不得安息；却有搅扰来到。